With the first half of the trading year almost over and second-quarter earnings season right around the corner, it is very possible that insider windows to buy stocks are starting ... Read Full Story »

With Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and S&P 500 Index hitting new highs, investors are now looking for new ideas and value stocks that they might have overlooked. Investors have ... Read Full Story »

After absolutely crushing most sectors of the S&P 500 over the past year, the energy services stocks finally started to see some serious profit-taking after West Texas Intermediate and Brent ... Read Full Story »

Despite reasonably consistent oil prices and an increasingly favorable overall tolerance for risk, the oil service sector had an ugly year in 2012. After a disastrous first half of the ... Read Full Story »

US equities markets opened lower this morning following surprisingly weak manufacturing reports from Europe and China. Fitch Ratings’ downgrade of Greek debt to ‘CCC’ could not have been a surprise, ... Read Full Story »

Oil field services company Basic Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE:BAS) reported this morning that December 2008 operations were even lower than expected. Drilling rig utilization reached just 66% in December, down ... Read Full Story »